ORIGINAL: opjose
ORIGINAL: jester_s1
The advice to bag the planes is very good, especially in the South with the dirt dobbers. Humidity changes along with thermal cycling can lift your covering over time. I would unmount the engines and flood them with oil (ATF is fine) and store them in plastic baggies. They'll practically last forever like that.
Excellent advice.
I would also remove the tank, tubings and fittings, then WASH them out, dry them and apply a bit of oil, and place them into baggies.
I live in North Central Ohio and we have the dirt dabbers here also but I have not seen the little blue wasps that will fill the vent hole with white mud.
There has been a lot of good to follow advice this thread, especially the last two in the quote above. But in many cases, a plane is merely left to languish out in the garage for several years. In most cases, we are still able to rejuvenate these forgotten planes back to flying condition one way or another.